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Word Meanings - CRIPPLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

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  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • HESITATION
    1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
  • CRIPPLY
    Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
  • ENFEEBLISH
    To enfeeble. Holland.
  • INEFFECTIVENESS
    Quality of being ineffective.
  • SUPERANNUATION
    The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
  • TOTTER
    1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
  • CRIPPLENESS
    Lameness. Johnson.
  • DEFECTIVE
    Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
  • HESITATINGLY
    With hesitation or doubt.
  • IMPERFECT
    1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
  • ENFEEBLER
    One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
  • HOBBLEBUSH
    A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
  • INEFFECTIVE
    Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
  • SUPERANNUATE
    1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
  • IMPOTENT
    Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble;
  • DECREPITNESS
    Decrepitude. Barrow.
  • INFIRMNESS
    Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
  • IMPERFECTIBLE
    Incapable of being mad perfect.
  • HOBBLY
    Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
  • TITTER-TOTTER
    See TEETER

 

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